Eric Sikora

Staff

Staff record

staff is the non-playing subtype of person: people this export decoded as staff rather than as players. It is only one of the three places a career can live. Plenty of well-known managers have no staff row at all — some are stored as players, and many sit in person_unclassified, whose subtype the decoder could not determine. Whichever table a person is in, their jobs come from staff_history joined to job_type, which is the table below.

Current ability
115
Potential ability
124
Home reputation
115
Current reputation
115
World reputation
70
International appearances
0
Coaching qualification
1

Ability and the three reputations are the raw game figures, which run to roughly 200 rather than to 20 — they are printed exactly as stored and nothing is converted. coaching_qualification is a badge level with no lookup table in the export, so it is shown as the stored number and no name is invented for it.

Calculated at game start

The enriched overlay is not loaded for this version, so Football Manager's calculated values are not available.

Appearance

Ethnicity code
0
Hair colour code
11
Hair length code
6
Skin tone code
5

Raw codes from the source. The export carries no lookup table for any of them, so they are shown as stored and are not given names.

Non-playing ability

Judging player ability 12
Judging player potential 14
Tactical knowledge 11
Hardness of training 10
Youngsters 16
Motivating 12
People management 12
Discipline 15
Mind games 8
Determination 15
Buying players 9

11 of 26 values recorded from staff_ability. Not recorded: Judging staff ability, Judging team data, Analysing data, Presenting data, Coaching, Coaching technique, Physiotherapy, Injury management, Patience, Eccentricity, Versatility, Negotiating, Business, Resources, Interference.

Coaching

Coaching Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale. Coaching: 6 of 6 values recorded, plotted on a 1 to 20 scale.
6 of 6 recorded
Coaching — every value plotted above, plus the ones that are not recorded.
AttributeValue
Attacking 10
Defending 14
Technical 8
Tactical 10
Mental 12
Fitness 5
Attacking 10
Defending 14
Technical 8
Tactical 10
Mental 12
Fitness 5

6 of 6 values recorded from staff_coaching.

Tactical style

The tactical preferences this person brings to a side, on the same 1 to 20 scale.

Attacking 13
Directness 15
Tempo 11
Pressing 13
Flexibility 13

5 of 17 values recorded from staff_tactical_style. Not recorded: Width, Depth, Sitting back, Marking, Offside, Use of playmaker, Use of subs, Free roles, Flamboyancy, Squad rotation, Set pieces, Dirtiness allowance.

Career spells

Marked current: 2 of 13 spells. A spell counts as current when date_left is empty or falls in the future — the source records plenty of long-finished spells with no end date, so more than one spell can carry the mark.

Career spells from staff_history, in the order the export wrote them.
ClubRoleFromToStatus
RC Lens Player 1980-07-01 — Current
RC Lens Assistant Manager 2005-01-25 2006-06-30 Ended
RC Lens Assistant Manager 2006-07-01 2007-06-30 Ended
RC Lens Assistant Manager 2007-07-01 2009-06-30 Ended
RC Lens Assistant Manager 2009-07-01 2010-06-30 Ended
RC Lens Manager 2010-07-01 2012-07-07 Ended
RC Lens Manager 2012-07-07 2012-09-24 Ended
RC Lens Manager 2012-09-24 2013-06-25 Ended
RC Lens Manager 2013-06-26 2017-08-20 Ended
RC Lens Manager 2017-08-21 2018-05-18 Ended
RC Lens Coach 2020-11-20 2021-06-30 Ended
RC Lens Manager 2021-07-01 2022-06-30 Ended
RC Lens Coach 2025-06-02 — Current

National-team spells

No national-team spells are recorded in person_nation_contract for this person.

Club contract

Club
RC Lens
Joined
2025-06-02
Contract start
2025-06-02
Expires
—
Weekly wage
£0

Squad numbers

Squad numbers from club_squad_number, keyed on team_uid.
TeamNumber
Team 871 —

Languages

Languages from person_language.
LanguageFirst languageProficiency
French Yes —
Polish No 2

Retirement

Retirement facts from person_retirement.
TypeDate
Total player retirement 2004-07-01

Relations and preferences

Liked clubs

ClubRating
RC Lens 100

Liked people

PersonRating
— 80
Didier Roudet 75
— 75
— 75
— 75
Fabien Mercadal 75
Christophe Delmotte 75
Jean-Guy Wallemme 75
Philippe Brunel 60
Francis Gillot 50

Other relations

Typed relations from person_other_relation.
Target typeTargetRating
nation (object type 8) Poland 100

Personal information

Date of birth
1968-02-04
Nationality
France
Birth city
Courrières
Joined current club
2025-06-02

Personality

Personality is stored on the same 1–20 scale as the attributes, and is shown exactly as recorded. A dash is a value the export did not record, which is not a zero.

Adaptability —
Ambition 14
Controversy 5
Loyalty 20
Pressure 14
Professionalism 18
Sportsmanship 15
Temperament 14